| Show IN I ISAN SALE OF LANDS SAN JUAN COUNTY IS ARRANGED Stretches Lie in Isolation Among Wildest Regions of the Far West I Announcement nt has been heen made by tho the I state land board that acres of or I state lands tying lying In San Juan county count will be sold at public sale at Monticello Monti- Monti cello Utah on July 10 next at 2 p. p m. m at a price per acre ranging from to U lo 5 tenth one-tenth of tho purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase price to be J paid ald at the tho time of or sale and the balance In nine equal an annual annual an- an n nual ual i installments tI men ts I an-I the first sale of public lan lands M In San Juan county since 1903 and in inasmuch inasmuch inasmuch in- in I as a number of new town townships have been surveyed in the most desirable desirable desirable desir desir- able part of the tho count county and the state lan lands s made available for tor this sale many valuable tracts will be he disposed disposed disposed dis dis- posed of These lands as well wen as the lands offered under the homestead laws offer to the a farm of ot almost unequaled fertility at a price that will wilt according to agricultural authorities be easily asHy paid out of ot the proceeds of or orI I the first crop Even the name of San Juan suggests the litho hope of or a promised land Jand and creates creates cre cre- ates in the mind pictures of an en enchanting en- en chanting prosperous hom homeland and Far beyond the long Jont stretches of desert esert waste wast ma magnificent in its isolation amongst the wildest regions conceivable ble by the mind of or man lies this I fertile Blue Mountain plateau GRANDEUR SURPASSING League after Ia league of ragged box canyons equaling If IC not surpassing the grandeur of ot the lower reaches of the Colorado wend their ways through the mile fifty-mile slope to that thal dark and fearsome fearsome fear fear- carsome car car- some river Vast stretches of ot similarly broken lands where hero even the cattle and horses become wild and revert to their primal state lie He toward oward the southwest In Inthis Inthis Inthis this region too arc are found the celebrated cele- cele natural brid bridges es and many ancient an- an dent clent ruins of the cliff dweller race To the south may be found mesa after ater mesa level and fertile upon tho crests and with canyons canons fringed with the relics of the impenetrable prehistoric prehistoric tone civilization that dotted the tho wa way to the San Juan river Dr DT Dry valley alIey to the north with its areas of sand wastes and Its curiously formed buttes presents a striking contrast contrast contrast con con- to the tho productive lands on the plateau and the verdant slopes of or the Lasal mountains More than one million acres of or land seldom equaled for tor Its productivity It await only tho plow of the farmer to produce crops in abundance In fact act experts edict pa-edict edIct that this count county will soon become the banner grain producing producing producing pro pro- districts In the west The late Professor Lewis A. A Merrill at that time head of or the extension work of ot the Utah Agricultural college characterized this county as without question the very best dry farming count county In the state and In my ray Judgment Judgment Judg Judg- ment this Is the best dry farming section section sec see tion In the west I CLIMATIC CONDITIONS I The climate varies from Crom temperate I In the plateau regions to semitropical In the southern portions of ot the county along the San Juan river with the air crisp and dr dry and the days usually warm while white as in all arid districts the ni nights are cool the y year r around The general nature of the plateau which extends from the thc Blue mountains mountains moun moun- In Utah to the La in Colerado Colorado Colorado Colo Cole rado is rolling and antl most of the tho land landIs Is covered with a more or less dense dente growth of ot sage brush Water Vater in wells may be secured at depths varying from fifteen to fifty feet feeL Soil son texture varies from a light sand sandy to a heavy clay loam and the precipitation a averages In excess of ot nineteen inches annual which is said to be the highest In the tho state and is considered ample for the raising of ot all aU kinds of ot crops under dry farming methods But even with all its agricultural possibilities San Juan Is not primarily a 11 farming section and owing to the vast extent of ot the broken country surrounding our sur rounding the tho plateau that is 15 useful only for grazing purposes stock growIng growIng growing grow grow- ing will always occupy a very prominent prominent prominent prom prom- if It not preeminent place Its principal principal principal prin prin- cipal Industry for tor years has been stock raising raising- and many wonderful successes have haye been made in this line As Is the case in all new sections of tho west stock raising was found to be the most profitable ble Industry by the tho carl early pioneers who made settlements settlements settlements settle settle- ments there as early carbo as 1875 This however in San Juan was largely largel due clue to tho the great distance from a railroad Dolores Colo Cob on on the eastern edge of the tho plateau lying seventy five miles east of ot Monticello and Thompsons on the mall mail line of the D. D R. R G. G to the north being more than miles away OLD ORDER CHANGES However with the advent of ot the new ne dry farming era ern about ten years year ago tho movement to divide the large cattie cattle cattle cat cat- tle tie ranges and give the land over to the settler who would place It under cultivation began and it is now be believed believed be- be to be but a short time Ume until the tho stock will range only on those portions of ot the county that are essentially grazing lands Most of the land that ha has hag been located located lo located lo- lo has haa been taken under the provisions provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the nonresident homestead law which permits the tho to reside In the towns contiguous to the farming areas arenA This Is said to bo be conducive conto con con- to a a. high order of or social welfare wel wet fare Care inasmuch as it does not lead 1051 to th tho Isolation BO 80 o common in agricultural communities Lands may be under the fed cd- cd eral oral homestead laws both resident and find nonresident and also under the tho desert land laws In addition to these theae methods methods meth reeth- tho the state land board of or Utah at Intervals sells what are known as school lands at a n price as low as an acre These school sections of oC which there are four In every town- town hip are eagerly bought up b by pur- pur both within and outside the tho and antl at times bring prices as at high is tS 12 12 and 15 an acre acra under competitive bidding |
